I suppose I’m probably someone who thinks too much. Funny how I present that apologetically, as if thinking were a bad thing. Still, I hope at least that I’m not someone who thinks too much of themselves. Time may tell. Who am I talking to? Well, I spend a good deal of time in dialogue […]
The Donald is a soft target, but seeing as he’s a man seemingly on a crusade against fake news, I’ll take him at his word…. In his post-indictment rambling, the former president said the following “While we are living through the darkest hours of American history, I can say that at least for this moment
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What, the big green man-turned-monster is back? No, not that one, the one on the right. Prison hulks Surely we don’t have those anymore? Well, not anymore for convicts – the last UK floating prison was HMP Weare, closed in…. guess? 1899? 2005. But good ideas never go out of fashion, and using ships for
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Sooooo…. Looking ahead to Saturday’s Milan San Remo, if you care about such things. I still find it hard not to, despite all evidence from the past suggesting cynicism would be a better stance, and despite the current take-over of the pro scene by petro corporations. But enough of that. Milan San Remo: boring? No!
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I happened to catch some of I feel therefore I am on Radio 4 on Tuesday. Here’s the blurb: In the final programme in the series, Professor Abigail Williams tackles the idea that a single objective truth is now being replaced by the idea of multiple truths. This investigation into the multiverse of truth takes
So… an article in this morning’s Guardian (The sudden dawn of the deinfluencer: can online superstars stop us shopping?) notes the recent rise of the deinfluencer, these being online folk shrilly telling whoever will listen that they don’t in fact need all the things they once never knew they needed until influencers told them shrilly
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On Woman’s Hour this morning (6th February 2023, and, P.S. also on Antisocial of 9th February), folk were getting mightily vexed about the ‘banning’ of Delilah by the Welsh Rugby Union. Has it actually been ‘banned? More precisely (but less shrilly), the WRU has removed it from its playlist (gasp!) and asked visiting choirs not
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Season – I do beg your pardon – Series – three of Happy Valley is back and in mid-flow. Tommy has just escaped custody, donning lycra by way of disguise and wobbling off down the high street exactly like someone who’d been in prison for a few years probably would. Or maybe that was a
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With voting by the party members fully underway, Operation Meat Raffle has gone into its vinegar strokes. Ever juicier bigger bones / bribes / tax-cut porn are being dangled before the faithful. After this campaign is over, it will have done for Gammon and Karen’s relationship what Fifty Shades of Grey had only tentatively begun:
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‘When you want to help people, you tell them the truth…When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.’ Author and economist Thomas Sowell quoted by… Kemi Badenoch, Minister of State for Equalities, in her forward to Inclusive Britain: government response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, March
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Is that it? Is that really it? At the last count there were eleven candidates for Conservative Party leadership. Eleven people who have serious and (mostly) credible ambitions for leading the country, several of whom have achieved positions of power and wealth outside of politics, all of whom (perhaps with the exception of backbencher Rehman
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